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Physical Fitness
That page title is a little misleading, because we tend to associate "physical fitness" with exercise. Exercise is certainly part of physical fitness, but this page is more dedicated to what happens to the body to make it unfit and what we can do to help prevent that from happening or make it more fit. It has a lot to do with anti-aging and not so much about particular exercise techniques, although some of those will certainly be included.
I started the page because I was looking into the role of mycostatin in muscle aging, and I had to put it somewhere!
Stay with me; much more to come...
Sarcopenic Obesity; aka, too little muscle, too much fat...
Loss of skeletal muscle mass and function (sarcopenia) is common in individuals with obesity due to metabolic changes associated with a sedentary lifestyle, adipose tissue derangements, comorbidities (acute and chronic diseases) and during the ageing process. Co-existence of excess adiposity and low muscle mass/function is referred to as sarcopenic obesity (SO), a condition increasingly recognized for its clinical and functional features that negatively influence important patient-centred outcomes. Effective prevention and treatment strategies for SO are urgently needed, but efforts are hampered by the lack of a universally established SO definition and diagnostic criteria. Resulting inconsistencies in the literature also negatively affect the ability to define prevalence as well as clinical relevance of SO for negative health outcomes.
A deeper look into MYOSTATIN & natural myostatin inhibitors
Myostatin (also known as growth differentiation factor-8, or GDF-8) is a protein that inhibits muscle growth. Blocking myostatin can enhance muscle hypertrophy, making myostatin inhibitors of interest to those looking to improve muscle mass, strength, and recovery, whether for athletic performance, aging-related muscle loss, or muscle-wasting conditions.
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